COLUMN: Both parties stink

Thursday

Two recent letters focused on how awful the Republican Party is (Kellogg Nov. 23 and Lewis Nov. 25) were typical donkey jersey-wearing diatribes that are so predictable.

Too be clear, I am a registered Independent and vote based upon actual thought and investigation, not just blindly voting one party ticket, following like cattle. The reality is that both parties stink and are corrupt and incompetent. I always love it when the libs talk about compromise and we should go along with the majority. Funny they never talk that way when they are on the losing side, only when they are the winning side.

When they lose, they scream like babies, threaten to leave the country (somehow they never really do. Shucks). To libs, compromise simply means everyone else needs to agree with them. They are right and the rest are wrong so just compromise (agree) with them. The rest of us also need to more tolerant.

Now keep in mind that they have tried to change the definition of tolerance just like they changed the meaning of gay and trying hard to change the meaning of marriage. Reality is that tolerance doesn’t require me to agree with your perspective or values. It simply indicates that I will put up with it to a certain degree. But today, by their definition, tolerance requires me to agree with your values. That is a nice try but no cigar. Quite frankly, if you don’t allow me to be intolerant to some of your values, doesn’t that make you intolerant?

Now as to the current financial situation, both parties have full ownership of that fact. But listen to these gentlemen and it is never their party’s fault. They have done everything correct and the other party has done everything wrong. Pretty comical. Did Bush create some financial deficit issues? Certainly. Has Obama done the same? Absolutely. Do all presidents and Congresses over the last 100 years have fingerprints on this financial mess? You can bet on that.

Actually this financial insanity started going crazy with FDR and Lyndon Johnson. The roots of the government freebies lie on their shoulders. FDR was practically a dictator and extended the Depression. Since these gentlemen accuse us of being uniformed I suggest they get some education by reading “The Forgotten Man.” Johnson was a warmonger who created the “Not So Great Society.” Nixon was a power hungry crook and Clinton was just an immoral bubba. Obama is incompetent without his teleprompters. Both sides have had their idiots.

You see, gentlemen, one can discuss these issues with balance and truth without drinking the Kool-Aid. I’d be willing to pay more taxes (and I certainly don’t make $250,000) if there would be honest conversation and “compromise” about entitlements and real spending control but they won’t. They will take that extra money and waste it, too. I also think ALL citizens should pay some federal tax; yes even the poor; even if it is just a few dollars. All citizens should have some skin in the game.

Plus, this new definition of being “poor” is also a joke. You can have a car, a cell phone, cable and still be classified as poor. If we took care of the “real” poor in this country we could actually do some good. Look around this world and you will see what poor really is. But the libs won’t “compromise” about entitlements. Nope, no flex there. They want the takers’ votes and the power to give away more. The Dems have controlled Congress for most of the past 50 years so do they have some accountability here? Does Harry Reid, who hasn’t passed a budget for multiple years, have some accountability?

I did not vote for the current administration because it has proven to be corrupt and incompetent. Just because I don’t agree with the majority doesn’t mean I don’t love this country. Maybe I love it too much and just maybe the majority is wrong.

The majority in Germany thought that Hitler was right at one time. That didn’t turn out so well did it?

Lancaster is a resident of Gaston County.

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